Shark terrorizes a small beach town
Jaws
This Long Island town is famous as the childhood home of Billy Joel
Hicksville
Which city hosted the first modern olympic games in 1896?
Athens
In 2025, our name change was motivated in part by the fact there are more than this many types of blood cancers.
100 types of blood cancer
This procedure replaces diseased marrow with healthy stem cells
Stem cell or bone marrow transplant
Missing groom, wrecked hotel room
The Hangover
Long Island was part of this colonial territory before becoming part of New York.
What is New Netherland
Which is the largest country in the world?
Russia
When was Blood Cancer United founded?
1949
What is the most common type of blood cancer?
Leukemia
Robot cleans garbage-littered Earth
Walle-E
Southampton
Which planet is the closest in size to earth?
Venus
What was the family that started Blood Cancer United?
The de Villiers
This cutting-edge treatment modifies a patients' own immune cells to attack cancer.
CAR-T cell therapy
Shy girl becomes royal icon
Princess Diaries
Long Island was originally inhabited by these Native American tribes, including Shinnecock and Montaukett
Algonquin peoples
Who is the highest paid athlete in the world?
Cristiano Ronaldo (275million)
Since our founding, how much have we invested in blood-cancer research?
10%
Man lost in dream layers
Inception
Long Island became a major center for this 20th-century industry, which included companies like Grumman
What is aerospace / aircraft manufacturing?
Who is the wealthiest musician in the world?
Jay-Z (2.5 billion)
Last year alone, the organization distributed more than 69,000 of these to patients and families, totaling about US$162 million.
What are financial assistance/grants/awards to patients
Roughly every this many minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with blood cancer
3 minutes